The last of three pre-preseason events has arrived for the local teams:

Coaches and players from Cal, Stanford and San Jose State will gather Wednesday morning at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara for the annual Bay Area college football media extravaganza, which follows the Mountain West and Pac-12 media extravaganzas of last week.

After the Levi’s festivities, which are presented by the San Francisco Bowl Game Association, the focus finally turns to practice.

SJSU gets underway Friday, while Cal and Stanford ramp up early next week. (The Spartans start a few days earlier because they play earlier, with a Thursday opener.)

I have a list of key dates below but wanted to catch readers up on news and links from the past week, for those who were on vacation or simply not paying attention. It’s July, after all.

*** News and links.

In my estimation, the most significant news of the summer comes from the Stanford camp:

Ty Montgomery, the top playmaker in the Bay Area, could miss the season opener against UC Davis … and possibly the Week 2 showdown vs. USC … as he recovers from surgery.

Also on the Stanford front: The duel for the backup QB spot isn’t much of a duel, after all, and David Shaw said he would consider playing SJSU at Levi’s Stadium.

Jon Wilner has been covering college sports for decades and is an AP top-25 football and basketball voter as well as a Heisman Trophy voter. He was named Beat Writer of the Year in 2013 by the Football Writers Association of America for his coverage of the Pac-12, won first place for feature writing in 2016 in the Associated Press Sports Editors writing contest and is a five-time APSE honoree.